Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-01

c,onor FR.xcrs TRAIN has wired M
former private secretary, George r beml'
of Omaha Neb., from Bangor, Me, 1nao ~
felt Sue (his daughCer) and the cniiui ei
and the birds of Madison square punins
him hack. and that he had abandoned tns
idea of expatriating himself.
IT is said that ex-senator Charles !"
Jones' the love-sick admlrer OF MISS aini7
ia in destitution in Detroit, Mich.
App.R end collision between two freight
trains ON the Chicago & Alton, near Sher
man eight miles north of Springfield, Ill
occurred on the 22d. Two locomotives ano
seventeen freight cars with their contents
were destroyed. The loss was from S2ooO'
TO $4,000. No person was seriously In
jured.
The Indiana White Caps have made then
appearance in the section about CraWIoros
vile but have done no criminal acts as YET
THE Mount Auburn Children's Hospital
n public charitable institution. was dedl
Gated at CINCINNATI recently. Bishop Dud
lev. of Kentucky, Ex-Governor Z. +. Noyes
Rev. Dudley, w. R. Rhodes and others
made addresses. The hospital and the ex
tepsive grounds are the gift of the Emery
Brothers, capitalists and real estate own
erS.
AT Champaign, ILL.,, recently, the sudden
breaking out of a stream OF water IN O
level field of dry, parched land brought
great relief to the farmers, who damned
up TIE water and hauled it away to their
homes. The appearance OF the water after
the terrible drought was regarded as re-
marketable phenomenon.
FIELDEN and Schwab, the Anarchists,
were for the first time visited by their
wives at the prison at Joliet, ILL.,, on the
ODD Both donned citizens clothes as is
the custom when convIcts receive relatives.
Both exhibited considerable feeling. The
meeting was affecting, but not demonstra-
tive.
THE physician who examined the body of
the executed Anarchist, August Spies, de-
clares that no attempt at resuscitatlon was
made as had been alleged. The body was
dead, rigor mortis being apparent in the
neck.
CHICAGO Irishmen celebrated on the 23d
the twentieth anniversary OF the execution
of Allen, O'Brien and Larkin, the "Man-
chester martyrs"
The recent election in Dakota, it was
thought, would show but little, if any. ma
jority in favor of dividing the Territory.
sBLISKEY" MORGAN, convicted of the
murder of Detective Hulligan, of Cleveland,
o., has been sentenced to be hanged on
March 16, 1888. A motion for a new trial
was overruled.
THE great st. Louis cotton steamer
Charles P. Chouteau was burned with her
cargo of $500 bales of cotton at Sunflower
Landing, $50 miles below Memphis. Tenn,
on the night of the 22d. The Chouteau was
formerly the Federal gun boat Chickasaw.
Two of the crew were reported lost.
THE employing Autograph printers of
Chicago have formed an organization sim
liar to the Typothet9:
JAMES G. DOUGLAS, a prominent capitalist
and at one time part owner of the Journal
of Indianapolis, nd, dropped dead in the
lobby of English's Opera House the other
night. Heart disease was the cause. He
was married about two weeks ago.
ALL the hands in the Manitoba railroad
shops aud round-house, to the
number OF about 200, at GAINESVILLE, Mimi,
quit work on the oath because they had not
been paid for a month, delay which, they
said, had occurred several times before.
JOHN RICE, well known minstrel, died
at the county hospital, Chicago, recently,
Of consumption. He had no relatives in
but his friends think he had a
sister living somewhere in the United
States.
A FIRE recently destroyed the Des
Moincs Qowa) Packing Company's estab-
lishment. Loss, Sl30 0J0.
THE Chicago Anarchist Defense Commit
tee had Il conference recently with the d.
rectors of Waldheim cemetery III refer
ence to the purchase of a lot in which to
bury the dead Anarchists. No objection
was made to burying all the bodies in one
plat of ground, and suitable plat was Sc
lected, containing about $500 square feet of
ground
j. w. OMAN, a real estate operator of
O., has made an assignment. The
liabilities were So, 900 and the assets
S24. 900. The assignment was natural
sequence of the real estate craze which
prevailed at Findlay last spring.